OK How can I create the feeling of falling? without makeing my guests fall?? I had a set up we wanted to use but our inspector said nono lol... I was going to use a large pallet jack as a drop for our Mine shaft cage... now I am looking for a cheap fix, I have the cage built it hold 6 people max... I want to give them the effect of droping down the shoot... ANY IDEAS>>>>

Well falling is a difficult sensation to create. Either your guests will have to actually fall to create the sensation of weightlessness OR what you can do is enclose them in an elevator / box type of thing with a window. make a scrolling wall that looks solid when they enter and when they fall have the lights flicker and turn on the wall outside the window and it'll look like you're falling. Disney used that technique in their old attraction "the living seas" at EPCOT. This link (although hoakey) is a good illustration of what i'm talking about but to create the sensation of falling, obviously you'd want to have the walls scroll faster than in this scenario. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_ws7QVuLU

you have to use the air bags that you are thinking of and have a lighting effect that travels up as the air deflates if you ever go to Orlando at universal studios the Spider Man ride they do the best dropping effect i have ever seen.